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Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #275 –
Love the component, happy for the update. Couple of issues, all of which have been brought up by others, but here's my voice adding to the chorus:

- Smooth scrolling is nice to have if you want it, maddening if you don't. Please offer it as an option. You could even default it to on so long as users have the freedom to choose. It is the right of all sentient beings, after all.

- Automatic column resizing is nice if you want assistance when changing the width of your columns. The problem here is that the ability to move a column beyond the visible width of the panel (and thus requiring a scroll bar) has apparently been removed. As you can see in my screenshot below, what this means in use is that if the panel is narrow, very few columns will have the space they need to communicate information effectively. I'm okay with the scrollbar, so please allow columns to exist beyond outside of the visible width of panels again. To go a step further, I'd like a toggle to lock the width of columns once they're where I want them (maybe a checkmark in the right-click dialog?). A little tooltip as I'm adjusting them showing the actual pixel width wouldn't hurt, either, but that may be up to Foobar itself and not within the capabilities of a component.


- Folks are asking about allowing there to be a bottom Facets pane, wider than those above it, for various reasons. I wouldn't mind it either, as it would give me more space to display the file information being obscured by the automatic column resizing I highlighted on the last point. Beyond this, if it were somehow possible to create the links between Facets panels manually--to use DUI separators to draw your panes individually, then tell Facets that this pane here updates this pane over here, regardless of whether those panes are above, below, or even touching one another, that would open up another door for possible design configurations.

Finally, and this isn't as specific to Facets as it is to Foobar (and really, media players in general): To everyone who's trying to play and display one playlist while they display and edit another, I feel your pain. It would help in the manual creation of new playlists, the kinds of playlists you make based entirely on personal, subjective criteria, and nothing you can put into metadata for a machine query or filter to automatically build. I'm still searching for a way to do this in Foobar, or any other media player for that matter. Or, at least, a way that doesn't involve invoking two instances of the program, since that is a workaround instead of native support. For anyone who can't understand why someone would want to play and display one playlist while simultaneously displaying and editing another, I've found the following example helps to demonstrate the kind of functionality I'm trying to produce: If you ever had a dubbing audio cassette player, the kind that had two tape bays so you could copy a song from one tape to another (or at least a CD player that also had a tape bay you could copy CD songs to), that's the kind of thing this sort of setup would enable. You play the one while evaluating the songs you want to go into the other--it's really quite simple. Observe this mockup:

I still want multiple libraries, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. In the meantime, Facets remains the backbone of my workaround. Thanks for all your hard work, Frank.

P.S. Hey Ferongr, how 'bout that C80, eh?

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #276 –
Quote from: Neutron Pong on
Finally, and this isn't as specific to Facets as it is to Foobar (and really, media players in general): To everyone who's trying to play and display one playlist while they display and edit another, I feel your pain.

I can perfectly understand your and Ferongr's desire - I just think it's not up to the Facets component to act like a pseudo playlist as a hack to overcome that limitation. It's up to foobar to allow multiple instances of the playlist view in the layout, you should direct your feature request there.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #277 –
Quote from: Neutron Pong on
Finally, and this isn't as specific to Facets as it is to Foobar (and really, media players in general): To everyone who's trying to play and display one playlist while they display and edit another, I feel your pain.


A effective workaround exists in foobar2000: use one of ssenna's playlist viewer (http://foo2k.chottu.net/ ) ESPlaylist (works in DUI or CUI) or ELPlaylist (CUI only). Add it in your layout (with another playlist viewer that will be your active playlist), right-click on the Es/ELPlaylist you added and in the PLAYLIST command, you can select to view the active playlist or to view one of your playlist all the time (for exemple the Facet selection playlist)
Decalicatan Decalicatan

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #278 –
After updating foobar recently, the way my albums are sorted has changed. I'm using Facets as my album display, and I have a lot of albums with multiple album artists. Until now, if I had more than one tag in the Album Artist field (eg. Pat Metheny; Jim Hall), the album would show up under both of those artists. But now it shows up under its own category in the list (Pat Metheny, Jim Hall), and not under each individual artist. Is there a way to fix this? Funnily enough I posted this exact question more than 5 years ago after updating the version, and the info I received then worked great until my latest update. Any help would be appreciated.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #279 –
1) You shouldn't be losing these sorts of settings when you are updating.  If this happen every time you "update" you are doing something incorrectly.

2) foo_facets is a 3rd Party component as it's author is Frank Bicking, not Peter. So I've moved your question to the appropriate forum.

3) According to the wiki entry you need to be using %<album artist>% as your field rather than %album artist%
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Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #280 –
Sorry for posting in the wrong forum. Your suggestion worked, thanks!

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #281 –
How can I make album art (no labels) bigger? Default is way too tiny for me.
And could you please implement %isplaying%? IMO playlist view is not very useful without being able to highlight the playing song. Grouping would also be nice.

And I second the idea of a thumbnail database.

And it would be great if the user could decide what to show in album art labels and how many rows they have.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #282 –
hello boys and gilrs!

Code: [Select]
recently added -----> %added% DURING LAST 1 WEEK


how to sort NOT in alphabetical order BUT in chronological order?

Thanks!!! 

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #283 –
Where are you using that code and where are you expecting it to sort? If it is a facets filter you add the sort syntax as per the docs.

%last_played% DURING LAST 1 WEEK  SORT DESCENDING BY %last_played%

Facets is not a playlist and you are simply adding a filter to your library. The above will filter your library appropriately, but I would expect the  sort criteria of the individual facets columns will sort according to how you set it up. If you send this filtered list to a playlist, the sort order should be what you expect.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #284 –
Feature suggestion: Double-click selects the whole search line, not just a single word. I think that's what most users wanna do in this search field. If you don't like this suggestion, then please include a Triple-click that selects the whole line.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #285 –
I second durch's suggestion!

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #286 –
Can you add tooltip for "Album art(no labels)"?

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #287 –
I'm voting for larger album art as well. I run Foobar on the TV through a small computer and it is way too small to see what is going on from the couch.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #288 –
To change the album art size, hold down Ctrl and rotate the mouse wheel.

Dennis

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #289 –
Cool, thanks - that's almost like an easter egg though! Couldn't find it.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #290 –
hey, wonder can anyone help me with this minor issue?

in 'playlist view' the facets playlist defaults to Library (selection) and Library (selection) (playing) .. is there anyway to customise these names? ive tried renaming them directly but it just creates new ones...

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #291 –
Unsure if this has to do with facets, but I'll try. Whenever I load a multi-disc album where I don't change the filename to match the track number, it loads the playlist as the files appear, rather than the tags.

Can I get foobar to take a file's tag as a precedent over filename?

EDIT: Solved. Apparently it takes more than editing the Shell Integration sort settings!

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #292 –
I found a strange behavior:

First of all, I use both Facets (just one, a Folder view) and SimPlaylist. My folders look like this: Album Artist - Album\..
If I select a Folder from let's say Amy Macdonald (where all files have "Amy Macdonald" as album artist, if that's of importance) and then I start a facets search for "amy", the playlist "Library selection" won't change. No other files of any Amy are added. However, if I (with a clean search field) select any other folder (not one of Amy Macdonald's folders) and then search for "amy", the Library selection playlist updates and displays all songs of any Amys from the whole Library.

The bug here is in my opinion that it should have done this during the first search, too.
Of course, you may replace Amy Macdonald with any other (album?) artist. It was just an example.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #293 –
Just loaded foo_facets.  Good job thank you!  I had an issue with double-click in panels affecting the playback queue but I found the option to turn it off in Preferences. :-)


Zarty

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #294 –
When you want to use multiple filters you have to click on the button to get the menu for every filter you want to add, because the menu disappear after you click on something. Wouldn't it be possible to make the menu stay until you click outside it? Or perhaps let leftclick behave as usual, but make middleclick add multiple filters, thus making the "multiple filters" button redundant. I think this would be more smooth?

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #295 –
Quote from: durch on
If I select a Folder from let's say Amy Macdonald (...) and then I start a facets search for "amy", the playlist "Library selection" won't change.

The album that remains selected determines which tracks are sent to the playlist.
You would not expect it to be any different if you select an album after searching.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #296 –
Alright, that's a nice feature.

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #297 –
this addon is great, congratulations to the developers

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #298 –
recently added doesn't seem to work.  Nothing comes up.  The other filters seem to work fine.  What could be the problem?

Facets (foo_facets)

Reply #299 –
Maybe you could add a little detail to your post. Use of the the words 'other filters' implies to me that you are using Columns User Interface.
This is a component for the Default User Interface.